The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 6

‘Look, I am coming with my train!’ said the Darning-needle as she drew a long thread after her; but there was no knot at the end of the thread.

Who acts: I, needle, knot · What happens: look, come, say, draw, be · To what, where: Darning needle, long thread, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, needle, knot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 coming	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 coming	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Look	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 train	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 train	nmod:poss
9	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 needle	det
14	Darning	darning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 needle	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Darning	punct
16	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 drew	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drew	nsubj
19	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thread	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thread	amod
22	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drew	obj
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drew	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 knot	det
30	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 end	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 end	det
33	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 thread	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 thread	det
36	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 end	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	present · progressive	I				with my train	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the Darning needle				tree rules
4	draw	past	needle	a long thread		after her = she		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
5	be	past	no knot		there	at the end of the thread		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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